Gerry Bunce: The missing column on property taxes

In your Feb. 28 front-page article on the increase in property taxes, there was a column missing in the spreadsheet provided by the Boulder County Assessor's office. Here it is.

Property tax revenue increase for one year, from 2015 to 2016:

• Boulder Valley School District: +16 percent

• St.Vrain Valley School District: +15 percent

• Boulder County +8 percent

• Boulder City +22 percent

• Longmont +16 percent

• Lafayette +19 percent

• Louisville +17 percent

• Erie +19 percent

• Superior +17 percent

• Lyons +18 percent

• Nederland +13 percent.

These numbers mean huge tax increases for all of us. The property tax increases for each of us, and not only seniors (as emphasized in the article), for 2016 are very, very large.

I fault our elected city councils, school superintendents, school board members, and county commissioners for not bringing these rather incredible tax revenue increases to us. Indeed, the only elected officials that come off (relatively) well in this debacle are the Boulder County commissioners, who will have a one-year tax revenue increase of only 8 percent to use. The city of Boulder increase is +22 percent.

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